Re: RFC: String interpolation

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I don't know: Python has had it for a while, no one uses it, and they are 
now introducing interpolation…

  > > (with-format ((zot "foo")
  > >               (thing (funcall '+ 3.42423 4)))
  > >   "This is %{thing}.2f and %{zot}ss")

  > This looks fine too, but the repetition bothers me (I don't really see what 
benefit there is to naming all arguments).  So I still find

  >   "This is %(funcall '+ 3.42423 4).2f and "foo"s"

  > more readable.

Is there a reason why people are writing (funcall '+ 3.42423 4)
rather than (+ 3.42423 4)?

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